JTA – Four elderly Jewish women playing mahjong in Florida may not sound like a crime – but that’s what was recently alleged in the city of Altamonte Springs.
Lee Delnick, Bernice Diamond, Helen Greenspan and Zelda King – aged 87 to 95 …
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12/11/15
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ORLANDO, Fla. (JTA) – Growing up in a traditional Jewish household, Joan Cubell didn’t really know much about Reform Judaism.
But after obtaining ordination a few years ago from a little-known rabbinical institute in suburban New …
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URIEL HEILMAN
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11/13/15
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WASHINGTON (JTA) – Think unity. On the heels of this year’s rancorous and polarizing debate over the Iran nuclear deal, organizers of this week’s General Assembly (GA) of Jewish federations wanted their annual conference to be an opportunity …
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Gabrielle Birkner
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11/13/15
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NEW YORK (JTA) – Do you experience feelings of peace and well-being at least once a week? Did God write the Torah? Do you eat bacon?
If these questions seem a little personal, don’t fret. They’re all part of a new Pew Research Center …
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URIEL HEILMAN
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11/13/15
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JTA – Pork is officially off the menu at U.S. federal prisons.
With the start of the new fiscal year on Oct. 1, the 206,000 inmates housed in 122 federal penitentiaries are no longer being served pork products.
Edmond Ross, a spokesman for …
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10/15/15
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JNS.ORG – Hundreds of thousands of Jews. Hundreds of thousands of challahs, candlesticks, and zemirot (Jewish songs). Havdalah.
From Oct. 23-24, Jews of all ages, levels of religious observance and geographic locations will come …
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MAAYAN JAFFE
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10/15/15
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LOS ANGELES (JTA) – While preparing for Sukkot in drought-ridden California, I hoped that the holiday’s joy had not dried up alongside much of the state’s water supply. For a holiday also called “the season of our joy,” one …
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EDMON J. RODMAN
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10/1/15
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(Kveller via JTA) – For many Jewish parents, the challenges they face raising their children include choosing between Jewish and public schools, planning bar and bat mitzvahs and staying sane while planning big Shabbat dinners. But for …
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COURTNEY NALIBOFF
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8/21/15
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It is bad enough when two Jewish congregations seriously disagree with one another, but when they seek to settle their differences through legal means – indeed, in federal district court – it becomes even sadder. To some litigants and many …
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GEORGE M. GOODWIN
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6/18/15
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As Jewish media far and wide started picking up on the story of this week’s devastating flood in Houston, which hit Jewish-heavy neighborhoods particularly hard, JNS.org was (in my own estimation) conspicuously late to join the reporting. That is …
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JACOB KAMARAS/JNS.org
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6/5/15
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